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Music vs. Art — What's the Difference?

Music vs. Art — What's the Difference?

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Music

Music is the art of arranging sounds in time to produce a composition through the elements of melody, harmony, rhythm, and timbre. It is one of the universal cultural aspects of all human societies.

Art

Art is a diverse range of (and products of) human activities involving creative imagination to express technical proficiency, beauty, emotional power, or conceptual ideas.There is no generally agreed definition of what constitutes art, and ideas have changed over time. The three classical branches of visual art are painting, sculpture, and architecture.

Music

The art of arranging sounds in time so as to produce a continuous, unified, and evocative composition, as through melody, harmony, rhythm, and timbre.

Art

The conscious use of the imagination in the production of objects intended to be contemplated or appreciated as beautiful, as in the arrangement of forms, sounds, or words.

Music

Vocal or instrumental sounds possessing a degree of melody, harmony, or rhythm.
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Art

Such activity in the visual or plastic arts
Takes classes in art at the college.

Music

A musical composition.

Art

Products of this activity; imaginative works considered as a group
Art on display in the lobby.

Music

The written or printed score for such a composition.

Art

A field or category of art, such as music, ballet, or literature.

Music

Such scores considered as a group
We keep our music in a stack near the piano.

Art

A nonscientific branch of learning; one of the liberal arts.

Music

A musical accompaniment.

Art

A skill that is attained by study, practice, or observation
The art of negotiation.

Music

A particular category or kind of music.

Art

Arts Artful devices, stratagems, and tricks.

Music

An aesthetically pleasing or harmonious sound or combination of sounds
The music of the wind in the pines.

Art

Artful contrivance; cunning.

Music

A series of sounds organized in time, usually employing some combination of melody, harmony, tempo, rhythm etc. usually to convey a mood.
I keep listening to this music because it's a masterpiece.

Art

(Printing) Illustrative material, especially in contrast to text.

Music

(figuratively) Any pleasing or interesting sounds.

Art

A second person singular present indicative of be.

Music

An art form, created by organizing of pitch, rhythm, and sounds made using musical instruments and sometimes singing.

Art

(uncountable) The conscious production or arrangement of sounds, colours, forms, movements, or other elements in a manner that affects the senses and emotions, usually specifically the production of the beautiful in a graphic or plastic medium.
There is a debate as to whether graffiti is art or vandalism.

Music

A guide to playing or singing a particular tune; sheet music.

Art

(uncountable) The creative and emotional expression of mental imagery, such as visual, auditory, social, etc.

Music

Electronic signal jamming.

Art

(countable) Skillful creative activity, usually with an aesthetic focus.
She's mastered the art of programming.

Music

Heated argument.

Art

(uncountable) The study and the product of these processes.
He's at university to study art.

Music

Fun; amusement.

Art

(uncountable) Aesthetic value.
Her photographs are nice, but there's no art in them.

Music

(transitive) To seduce or entice with music.

Art

(uncountable) Artwork.
Sotheby's regularly auctions art for millions.
Art collection

Music

The science and the art of tones, or musical sounds, i. e., sounds of higher or lower pitch, begotten of uniform and synchronous vibrations, as of a string at various degrees of tension; the science of harmonical tones which treats of the principles of harmony, or the properties, dependences, and relations of tones to each other; the art of combining tones in a manner to please the ear.

Art

(countable) A field or category of art, such as painting, sculpture, music, ballet, or literature.
I'm a great supporter of the arts.

Music

Melody; a rhythmical and otherwise agreeable succession of tones.

Art

(countable) A nonscientific branch of learning; one of the liberal arts.

Music

The written and printed notation of a musical composition; the score.

Art

(countable) Skill that is attained by study, practice, or observation.

Music

Love of music; capacity of enjoying music.
The man that hath no music in himselfNor is not moved with concord of sweet sounds,Is fit for treasons, stratagems, and spoils.

Art

Contrivance, scheming, manipulation.

Music

A more or less musical sound made by many of the lower animals. See Stridulation.

Art

The second person singular, indicative mode, present tense, of the substantive verb Be; but formed after the analogy of the plural are, with the ending -t, as in thou shalt, wilt, orig. an ending of the second person sing. pret. Cf. Be. Now used only in solemn or poetical style.

Music

An artistic form of auditory communication incorporating instrumental or vocal tones in a structured and continuous manner

Art

The employment of means to accomplish some desired end; the adaptation of things in the natural world to the uses of life; the application of knowledge or power to practical purposes.
Blest with each grace of nature and of art.

Music

Any agreeable (pleasing and harmonious) sounds;
He fell asleep to the music of the wind chimes

Art

A system of rules serving to facilitate the performance of certain actions; a system of principles and rules for attaining a desired end; method of doing well some special work; - often contradistinguished from science or speculative principles; as, the art of building or engraving; the art of war; the art of navigation.
Science is systematized knowledge . . . Art is knowledge made efficient by skill.

Music

Musical activity (singing or whistling etc.);
His music was his central interest

Art

The systematic application of knowledge or skill in effecting a desired result. Also, an occupation or business requiring such knowledge or skill.
The fishermen can't employ their art with so much success in so troubled a sea.

Music

(music) the sounds produced by singers or musical instruments (or reproductions of such sounds)

Art

The application of skill to the production of the beautiful by imitation or design, or an occupation in which skill is so employed, as in painting and sculpture; one of the fine arts; as, he prefers art to literature.

Music

Punishment for one's actions;
You have to face the music
Take your medicine

Art

Those branches of learning which are taught in the academical course of colleges; as, master of arts.
In fearless youth we tempt the heights of arts.
Four years spent in the arts (as they are called in colleges) is, perhaps, laying too laborious a foundation.

Art

Learning; study; applied knowledge, science, or letters.
So vast is art, so narrow human wit.

Art

Skill, dexterity, or the power of performing certain actions, acquired by experience, study, or observation; knack; as, a man has the art of managing his business to advantage.

Art

Skillful plan; device.
They employed every art to soothe . . . the discontented warriors.

Art

Cunning; artifice; craft.
Madam, I swear I use no art at all.
Animals practice art when opposed to their superiors in strength.

Art

The black art; magic.
In America, literature and the elegant arts must grow up side by side with the coarser plants of daily necessity.

Art

The products of human creativity; works of art collectively;
An art exhibition
A fine collection of art

Art

The creation of beautiful or significant things;
Art does not need to be innovative to be good
I was never any good at art
He said that architecture is the art of wasting space beautifully

Art

A superior skill that you can learn by study and practice and observation;
The art of conversation
It's quite an art

Art

Photographs or other visual representations in a printed publication;
The publisher was responsible for all the artwork in the book

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